311results about "X-ray tube target geometry" patented technology

X-ray generator devices and methods for operating the same that utilizes anodes comprising thin cylinders to generate characteristic X-ray spectra, which emerges from the cylinders axially, as an intense beam.

A Laminography system with x-ray source and a detector assembly. The x-ray source uses a narrow, deflected pencil beam to scan to a linear target. An x-ray cone beam detected by the detector assembly is produced where the electron beam strikes the target. The target is a layer of high-emitting material that is partitioned with narrow regions of low-emitting material, where the low flux intensity is sufficiently low to be easily distinguished from the flux intensity of the high-emitting material. The target may be constructed as a discontinuous layer of high-emitting material applied to a substrate of low-emitting material, or as strips of low-emitting material applied to a continuous layer of high-emitting material.

An x-ray computed tomography system uses a broad area x-ray emitter and detector to allow both in plane and out of plane x-ray projections not restrained to spiral or helical scans.

In one embodiment, an X-ray source is provided that includes one or more electron emitters configured to emit one or more electron beams and one or more source targets configured to receive the one or more electron beams emitted by the one or more electron emitters and, as a result of receiving the one or more electron beams, to emit X-rays. Each source target of the X-ray source includes a first layer having one or more first materials; and a second layer in thermal communication with the first layer and having one or more second materials. The first layer is positioned closer to the one or more emitters than the second layer, the first material has a higher overall thermal conductivity than the second layer, and the second layer produces the majority of the X-rays emitted by the source target.

A differential phase-contrast X-ray imaging system is provided. Along the direction of X-ray propagation, the basic components are X-ray tube, filter, object platform, X-ray phase grating, and X-ray detector. The system provides: 1) X-ray beam from parallel-arranged source array with good coherence, high energy, and wider angles of divergence with 30-50 degree. 2) The novel X-ray detector adopted in present invention plays dual roles of conventional analyzer grating and conventional detector. The basic structure of the detector includes a set of parallel-arranged linear array X-ray scintillator screens, optical coupling system, an area array detector or parallel-arranged linear array X-ray photoconductive detector. In this case, relative parameters for scintillator screens or photoconductive detector correspond to phase grating and parallel-arranged line source array, which can provide the coherent X-rays with high energy.

In a focus detector arrangement and method for an x-ray apparatus for generating projection or tomographic phase-contrast images of an examination subject, a beam of coherent x-rays is generated by an anode that has areas of different radiation emission characteristics arranged in bands thereon, that proceed parallel to grid lines of a phase grid that is used to generate the phase-contrast images.

An improved x-ray generation system produces a converging or diverging radiation pattern particularly suited for substantially cylindrical or spherical treatment devices. In an embodiment, the system comprises a closed or concave outer wall about a closed or concave inner wall. An electron emitter is situated on the inside surface of the outer wall, while a target film is situated on the outside surface of the inner wall. An extraction voltage at the emitter extracts electrons which are accelerated toward the inner wall by an acceleration voltage. Alternately, electron emission may be by thermionic means. Collisions of electrons with the target film causes x-ray emission, a substantial portion of which is directed through the inner wall into the space defined within. In an embodiment, the location of the emitter and target film are reversed, establishing a reflective rather than transmissive mode for convergent patterns and a transmissive mode for divergent patterns.

An x-ray imaging system has an x-ray source having an electron field emission source that emits an x-ray beam that strikes an elongated, stationary anode in an evacuated housing. A magnetic deflection system steers the electron beam between the electron field emission source and the anode, so that the electron beam can strike the anode at different locations, thereby causing x-rays to be emitted from those different locations, by controlling the degree of magnetic deflection. A radiation detector detects the x-rays after attenuation by an examination subject, and generates signals dependent on the detected radiation that represent an image of the subject.

The present invention refers to X-ray tubes for use in imaging applications with an improved power rating and, more particularly, to a multi-segment anode target (102′) for an X-ray based scanner system using an X-ray tube of the rotary anode type, said X-ray tube comprising a rotatably supported essentially disk-shaped rotary anode (102) with an anode target (102′) for emitting X-radiation when being exposed to an electron beam (105a) incident on a surface of said anode target (102′), wherein said rotary anode disk (102) is divided into at least two anode disk segments (102a and 102b) with each of said anode disk segments having a conical surface inclined by a distinct acute angle (α) with respect to a plane normal to the rotational axis (103a) of said rotary anode disk (102) and thus having its own focal track width. A control unit for pulsing the electron beam (105a) is provided which is adapted for pulsing the electron beam (105a) such that the electron beam has a duty cycle which takes on its switched on state only when incident on a selectable anode disk segment (102a or 102b) with an inclination angle (α) from a given angular range or on a anyone from a selectable set of these anode disk segments (102a or 102b). Controlling the electron beam's pulse sequence thereby allows to select the optimal segment of the focal spot track (106b) with the smallest possible inclination angle (α) dependent on the angular size (β) of a desired field of view and helps to achieve a maximum brightness of the focal spot (106) as well as a maximized power rating. An advantage of the invention consists in an enhanced image quality compared to conventional rotary anodes as known from the prior art.